Use Visualisation In Making Changes

Visualisation is a secret weapon which is under used when we are making changes in our life and our work. It a powerful way to re-wire your brain, the neurons, and neural pathways.

Visualisation is also a skill. A skill you can learn and develop with practise.

I talk through a simple exercise you can do to help you develop the skill of visualisation. In fact, you can create your own visualisation exercises.

As you get better, you can then use visualisation more effectively with the changes you want to make and see in your habits, routines, and behaviours.

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Enthusiasm is a good thing, overall. But sometimes it can get in the way or upset your plan as you start your changing making journey.

Why can enthusiasm be a problem?

It can make you think you are ready to do more than you ready for right this minute. When you aren’t ready for the next level you can set yourself further back than where you started.

Take injuries in sport. If you are good for running 15 minutes at light speed, jumping up to running faster or longer after a few days opens you up for injury. Which could set you back several weeks.

There are more examples in the episode, and what you can do the keep building on your successes and keep enthusiasm at just the right level to keep moving forward.

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How much sleep do you need?

Although an alternative question could have been – are you getting enough sleep? You probably aren’t. Depending on which study you read anything from 40% to over 60% of us are sleep deprived.

The latest neuroscience studies in sleep are helping us understand just why we sleep, and getting more and better sleep is a real benefit for our mind, body, and soul! So, knowing how much sleep we need is the first step to addressing our sleep shortage.

In this episode I talk about Sleep Cycles and how to use them to work out (and test out) just how much sleep you need.

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Do your capture your ideas?

Ideas pop up all the time. Our mind is constantly working. Thoughts are constantly coming and going. In amongst our thoughts, ideas spring to mind. Stuff we were wrestling with yesterday and suddenly, as you are about wash your hair in the shower an idea comes to mind.

They always seem to find the most awkward time and place to appear.

In this episode I look at what you can to capture your ideas, why they pop up at strange moments, and what to do once you have them in a nice collection.

If you have a collection of ideas and want to chat about what to do next then book a free 30-minute call to help you get started. 

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Want to get more things done?

Want to build better and new habits?

Then start by removing the options and obstacle which will stop you from NOT doing the action/activity/habit. One sure way of helping you get things done is to be precise and specific about what it is you are going to do.

In the podcast, I cover one of the stories which James Clear has in his book ‘Atomic Habits’ which resulted in a much higher number of people taking action.

It’s a short episode today and focused on just one thing which I hope will make a big difference in your life and work when you follow the actions in the episode.

If you ant to make more lasting change then book a free 30 minute call to help you get started. 

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One Thing This Week – Break It Down To The Smallest Action.

Another short episode to look at how you can tackle the big goals, objectives, and target you have or want to achieve in the second of this year.

Keep it simple and build habits to reaches the most challenging of goals.

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Have a great day and check-in to more episodes next week.

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It’s a question which is always asked. There are two parts to this episode. The first part answers the question and is based on various studies over the ages. The second part is how do go about living a life which is fulfilled and happier.

Back to the first part. There was a study by Harvard University which as been running for over 90 years! It was the study of adult development. Along with studying how adults developed and changed over time it also looked how happy people where. And what made their lives happier. You probably know the answer.

You can watch the Ted Talk video by Professor Robert Waldinger here: https://youtu.be/8KkKuTCFvzI

The second half the episode I look at an approach which I think will help you work on how you live your life. The attributes and characteristics you can develop to help with having a fuller and happier life. It’s from none other than Dr Stephen Covey who wrote the famous book ‘The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People', although the exercise I refer to in the podcast isn’t from this book! It’s from ‘First Things First”.

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A short personal message on Father's Day to all fathers out there, and to daughters and sons.  

Wishing you all the very best today....and every day.

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Shaun Doherty was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 24.

Hodgkinson Lymphoma, one of the cancers which has a good success rate of being treated. But he fell into the small group where the treatments were having less effect than usual.

It was during his fight with cancer he decided to look at how he could help himself, along with the varied treatments he was going through, to give his body the best chance of fighting and beating cancer.

It was then he came across Breathwork. Using breath and how to breathe to help him keep going each day, and to give focus to the things which matters.

Listen to Shaun’s fascinating journey from the day he was told he had cancer, and how breathwork helped him each day.

He now helps others to use breathwork to help with staying focused, calming the mind, dealing with overwhelm and a few more challenges we face each day.

Shaun also takes us through an exercise to help understand how to breathe which helps get the body to make best use of oxygen and carbon dioxide in each breath.

The links Shaun mentioned in the podcast are:

The breathwork MP3:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MCXaL2keu5kWMSJjz_tR_qMe_-TNWYxw/view

The YouTube video:  https://youtu.be/ZsHGcpj-gog

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Why is it so easy to acquire bad or unhealthy habits? They seem to be so easy to pick up, yet the habit we want or are good for us are so difficult to the create and stick with.

Do you find this happens to you? Don’t worry, it’s not just you, it happens to all of us. There is good science behind why bad and unhealthy habits are so easy to acquire.

It’s because of the Habit Loop.

It’s worth reading the book ‘The Power of Habits’ by Charles Duhigg where he goes into detail about the habit loop. Although the habit loop does turn up in many other habit books albeit they may be embellished in some way, but essential it’s the 3-part habit loop.

I go through the three parts of the habit loop, and you will see, fairly quickly, how it works and how the parts determine how quickly you develop a habit (or not).

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